Sight & Sound app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: PageSuite Limited
First release : 08 Aug 2012
App size: 98.03 Mb
Sight & Sound is the international film magazine that offers a unique perspective on the very best of film culture – past and present. Published for more than 80 years by the British Film Institute, Sight & Sound is the original magazine for the discerning film-fan. We carry news, interviews and analysis from the best writers on film as well as a comprehensive reviews section with a full synopsis, credits and production details for every film reviewed.
Subscription Options:
1-month subscription - £3.99
6-month subscription - £18.99
12-month subscription - £34.99
All subscriptions come with access to the complete archive of Sight & Sound since first published in 1932 - an unrivalled archive of film commentary and criticism.
Existing Print-Subscriber?
Print-subscribers can read the iPad edition at no extra cost. Simply install the free App, open and enter your registered email address and password.
For more information visit bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/subscribe
These subscriptions are auto-renewing subscriptions. Prices for the subscriptions are £3.99 for one month, £18.99 for 6 months and £34.99 for one year. Payment for this subscription will be charged to your iTunes account upon purchase. The subscription will auto-renew within 24 hours of the current subscription expiring. Auto-renewing subscriptions can be managed via Account Settings allowing them to be turned off. No cancellations of the current subscription are allowed during the active subscription period.
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Latest reviews of Sight & Sound app for iPhone and iPad
There are five stars for the magazine with its in-depth high quality articles. However, the app it is presented in is no fun at all. Double-tap zooming often makes the text too big so that manual readjustment is necessary. There is no tap like scrolling in either direction so that one has to constantly move the text around. It is not possible to directly swap to the next page if you are zoomed in. The menu bars top and down are always visible and turning from landscape to portrait sometimes brings you back to the cover page. Finally very few multimedia features are included (more links to previews and a bookmark feature for films to your watchlist would be welcome). Its a pity that the reading experience of such a brilliant magazine still can be so poor.
This app description is most confusing. Unlike most magazines where after you paid for a subscription, you get to read the magazine you purchased, paying for a subscription means you get to read all the magazines for the past 2 years when youre subscribed. Once your subscription expires, you cannot read anything. And this is not stated anywhere in the app description except on the regular Sight and Sound website. So when I paid for a 1-month subscription and couldnt finish the issue I wanted to read within that month, I can no longer read the issue I thought I paid for. Should have bought the print copy instead. The worst part is the when I emailed my concerns on three occasions to the app developer, they just ignored me. If I hadnt gone to the Sight and Sound website, I wouldnt have figured their strange subscription model out.
Average quality. Needs to be updated, doesnt work with iOS 7!
I thought the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite was a shoddy tablet magazine creation tool, but PageSuite makes Adobes apps (The New Yorker, National Geographic, Fast Company) look downright exemplary. First of all, why are the menus on top and bottom of the page ever-present? One tap on the screen should hide them, theyre distracting and ugly. And pages load in what can be described in film geek speak as a checkerboard wipe. For a classy, standard-bearer publication like Sight & Sound to be presented in such in a clunky way is disappointing. I was looking forward to a digital-only subscription but after having looked through this first issue Im going to have to stick to the newsstand or, more likely, not reading it altogether. Prove me wrong with subsequent updates, please!
Its really not much more than scans of the magazine pages, but the biggest flaw is that it doesnt remember your page when you close the app. So you have to go through a lot of slow-loading pages to try to figure out where you were.